Student newspaper from Johnson C Smith University is now online

The University Student, Johnson C. Smith University’s student newspaper, is now available on DigitalNC with issues from 1926-1930. Johnson C Smith University, a historically black university in Charlotte, NC was founded in 1867 as the Biddle Memorial Institute. The name was changed to Johnson C Smith University in 1923 after a benefactress’ husband, shortly before the available run of papers were published. The school became co-ed in 1932.

The student newspaper was published monthly in the 1920s and not only had news about the university and Charlotte, but also news about the wider African-American academic world, with a lot of very thought provoking articles about the issues of the time, with articles discussing topics varying from “Social Hereditary” to “Is Smith the Potential Yale of the South?”

To view more resources from Johnson C Smith University, visit their partner page here. And to view more student newspapers from across the state, visit our newspapers here.